A suspected armed robber was shot by his alleged victim after they met up in Dallas to talk about a Craigslist ad for a motorcycle, police said.

Samuel Grimes, 30, of Cedar Hill, had the man meet him Nov. 25 in the 11900 block of Highland Oaks Drive in Red Bird, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The man, who was from Saginaw, brought his daughter and his father with him to look at the motorcycle. Grimes pulled up while talking on his cellphone and looking past the man “as though he was looking to see who else was with” him, according to the police documents. Police said Grimes asked the man if he wanted to pull the motorcycle out front.

The man told police that Grimes then pulled a gun on the man and told him to get on the ground. At the same time, the man’s father got out of their pickup to check on his son, according to the affidavit. When Grimes turned his attention to the father, the man pulled a pistol out of his pocket and got off four shots, police said.

Bullets struck Grimes, who fled, police said. The man and his family hurried back to Saginaw and called police. Grimes also called police from a different location. He said he had been shot twice by an unknown man. He was hospitalized.

Investigators said they found ski masks and batons in Grimes’ car, which matched witnesses description of a car that left the scene near the shooting.

Grimes has been charged with aggravated robbery. He was released Monday on a $50,000 bond. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Saginaw man accused of raping and killing a 6-year-old neighbor is now in Tarrant County Jail after he was released from the hospital Wednesday, the Sheriff’s office announced.

Tyler Holder, 17, sported a black eye and bandages on his neck in his new mugshot released Wednesday. He was in the hospital after he was shot during an exchange of gunfire with officers who were trying to arrest him in connection with the slaying of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher. At the time, police said Holder was shot in the head.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bill Miller reported Wednesday on Twitter that Holder had more firepower available to him; Holder’s home also contained two handguns, four rifles and a shotgun, according to a search warrant affidavit.

Holder has been charged with capital murder for the Gallagher slaying and attempted capital murder for the Lodatto shooting. Other charges could be tacked on later. His bond has been set at $1 million.

Holder has declined all media interviews, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Terry Grisham said in an email.

About a week after he was shot by a man suspected of raping and killing a 6-year-old Saginaw girl, Arlington police detective Charles Lodatto was released from the hospital.

Lodatto left the hospital around noon Monday, Arlington police spokeswoman Tiara Richard said. He will continue to recover at home.

Police say Tyler Holder, 17, shot Lodatto in the groin when the detective went to the door of Holder’s home. Holder was wanted for the slaying of Alanna Gallagher. His DNA matched evidence recovered from Gallagher’s body, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The teenager accused of raping and murdering his 6-year-old neighbor left a sealed letter at his home addressed to his mother that said, “I love you. I’m sorry,” according to police documents obtained this afternoon.

The note to Kimberly Holder was among more than 100 items police found in the home of Tyler Holder, 17, following a brief shootout when officers attempted to arrest him on Tuesday morning in the slaying of Alanna Gallagher.

Among other items seized were paper towels with blood, condoms, latex gloves, phones, computers, clothes and red duct tape. Alanna’s hands and feet were bound with red duct tape, according to police.

Police also searched Kimberly Holder’s car and they seized her son’s cell phone, according to the records.

A judge ordered the probable cause affidavits for the search warrants sealed. Lists of items taken when a search warrant is executed cannot be sealed under state law.

Holder is accused of shooting Arlington police Officer Charles Lodatto in the groin area during a struggle with officers at his home on Tuesday. Another officer shot Holder in the head. Both men remain hospitalized.

Holder’s DNA was found on Alanna’s body, according to police documents. He faces charges of capital murder and attempted capital murder of a police officer.

The teenage suspect in the slaying of a 6-year-old Saginaw girl refused to talk to authorities at his home on Tuesday morning and pulled a gun on them when they told him they had a warrant for his arrest, according to police documents.

Tyler Holder, 17, and Arlington police Officer Charles Lodatto were wounded in a brief gun battle that ensued. In addition to a capital murder charge in the killing of Alanna Gallagher, Holder now also faces a charge of attempted capital murder of a police officer, the documents said.

FBI Special Agent Andy Farrell, Arlington police Det. Charles Lodatto and Saginaw police Det. Robert Richardson went to the front door of Holder’s house two doors down from the Gallagher home about 9 a.m. Farrell knocked on the door, announced “police” and, “made contact with Tyler Holder at the doorway to the residence,” the arrest warrant affidavit said.

The FBI agent asked to speak with Holder and he declined. Farrell then told Holder he was under arrest and that’s when “Holder reached behind him and produced a handgun,” the affidavit said.

Farrell grabbed Holder and a struggle ensued.

“Farrell was able to push Holder into the residence while struggling to gain control of Holder’s firearm,” the affidavit said.

Holder shot Lodatto in the groin area and Richardson then shot Holder in his head. Both men remain hospitalized today.

Police were executing an arrest warrant for 17-year-old Tyler Holder in the killing of Alanna Gallagher this morning when the suspect exchanged gunfire with them, according to police documents.

Holder was to be charged with capital murder in the July 1 slaying of the Saginaw 6-year-old, whose body was found bound and wrapped in a gray tarp about a mile from her home.

DNA evidence taken from Alanna, who was sexually assaulted, was matched to Holder, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA-TV (Channel 8).

Update at 3:16 p.m.:

Officer Charles Lodatto

The wounded lawman has been identified as Arlington police Officer Charles Lodatto.

Lodatto was shot in the groin area when he and other members of the North Texas Major Case Investigative Team served a warrant at a home a few doors down from where 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher lived.

Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said Lodatto “has a difficult road in front of him” but is recovering from his injuries.

Bill Witham, a trauma surgeon at Harris Methodist, said someone at the scene applied a tourniquet to Lodatto’s right leg shortly after the shooting, and that likely saved his life because the bullet struck an artery and broke into pieces.

Witham said Lodatto could have easily bled to death in a matter of minutes if not for that.

Johnson said it’s been a tough day for the Arlington Police Department, which is close with Lodatto’s family.

“I wanted to give a heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the medical services that have been provide to our detective both in the field, in the ambulance, and at this hospital,” Johnson said. “I know that the reason that we’re able to report that Detective Lodatto has done as well as he has is because of the care he has received.”

Police sealed off the Alanna's neighborhood, where a light pole was wrapped by police tape and a purple ribbon in memory of the 6-year-old.

Original entry:

An officer and a suspect in the death of a Saginaw girl were shot this morning when police served a warrant at a home two doors down from where the 6-year-old lived.

Officials went to the suspect’s home in the 600 block of Babbling Brook Drive around 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, and shortly afterward neighbors heard two or three gunshots.

FBI spokeswoman Katherine Chaumont said federal agents working with a task force of local police were serving a felony warrant when the shooting happened, shortly after officers knocked at the front door.

“Officers engaged the suspect at the door, an altercation ensued, the suspect produced a weapon and shots were fired,” she said.

The suspect and an officer were wounded in the exchange of gunfire. Authorities have not confirmed the condition of the Arlington officer, but other media report he was shot in the upper leg. Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson later tweeted that the officer was recovering at Harris Methodist in Fort Worth.

“I am at the hospital with our officer who is out of surgery,” the chief said. “More medical test are needed but things are very optimistic.”

The identity and condition of the wounded suspect were not released, but Medstar spokesman Matt Zavadsky said he suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in critical condition.

Channel 8 said the task force served the warrant at the home of 17-year-old Tyler Holder. Citing sources close to the investigation, Channel 8 reports that DNA taken from the teen matched evidence that was found at the crime scene.

Two teenagers found the 6-year-old’s partially nude body on July 1 under a tarp on a street not far from her home. Last week, police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were investigating what they believed was an intentional fire set to a car parked in the Gallagher home’s driveway.

This photo of Alanna was posted to her father's Facebook page in December. (Facebook)

Authorities are investigating a fire set to a vehicle parked outside the Saginaw home of the 6-year-old whose body was found under a tarp earlier this month.

Officer Damon Ing with Saginaw police said officials responded to what they believe is a fire set intentionally shortly after 2:15 a.m. Friday morning. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting Saginaw police and the Saginaw Fire Department with the arson investigation.

The home of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher’s family was not damaged in the fire, Ing said. Also, a second fire outside the home that damaged a memorial for the girl was reportedly sparked by a candle, not arson.

Alanna’s body was found under a tarp on the side of a Saginaw street July 1 by two teenagers. Investigators, with the help of the FBI, have been collecting evidence and analyzing DNA and other materials from the Gallagher home and the neighborhood. There is a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the killer’s arrest and conviction.

Anyone with information about the case can call 682-888-3682 and 682-888-3684.

In billboard messages posted throughout the area, the FBI is asking for information in the Saginaw slaying of 6-year-old Alanna Gallagher, the latest sign that authorities need more information to help them break the case.

The message (above), which includes a photo of Alanna, is being posted on about 20 billboards, said Dallas FBI spokeswoman Katherine Chaumont. It lists phone numbers for two tip lines and advertises the $10,000 reward that is being offered for information in the case.

Authorities have said they have no suspects in the case. Saginaw police spokesman Officer Damon Ing said on Wednesday that he had no updates and he declined to answer specific questions about the investigation.

A Tarrant County judge sealed the affidavits for the search warrants for the home and for the analysis of the electronics. However, state law does not allow for the sealing of warrants or warrant returns and inventories.

The warrant for the forensic analysis says that the items “may contain evidence of a criminal offense.”

According to the warrant for the search of the home, police were there in search of, among other things, a Wal-Mart receipt and plastic bags, red duct tape and packaging, a men’s belt of size 38-44 and “any material that could be used to bound hands or feet,” the warrant said.

Witnesses who discovered Alanna’s body have said she was bound and that her body was wrapped in a tarp with a belt. Her head was also covered with a bag, they said.

Investigators listed more than 100 items that were seized from the home and three vehicles parked nearby, according to the inventory. Among the items were computers, garbage bags, tissues, toilet paper, toothbrushes, duct tape, hair samples, belts, Wal-Mart bags and receipts, arm and leg restraints, a tarp, bedding, teddy bears, plastic gloves, water from a hot tub, DNA swabs, electronics and two swabs of possible blood.

The Gallagher family did not return a call seeking comment on Wednesday.

Alanna’s funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday at Calvary Lutheran Church in Richland Hills.

Update at 4:40 p.m.: Authorities have no suspects and are offering up to $10,000 for information in the slaying of a 6-year-old girl found bound and wrapped in tarp on a Saginaw street this week.

Police made the announcement at an afternoon news conference, during which they said they have questioned Alanna Gallagher’s family, but that they are not currently considered suspects.

“We send our heartfelt prayers to the family for their loss of their child,” said Saginaw Officer Damon Ing. “As you can imagine, they are very distraught at this time.”

Ing said investigators have received “very good leads” pertaining to a vehicle of interest in the case. Witnesses near where the body was found told police they saw a red pickup with softball-size green paint splatter on the rear passenger side. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 682-888-3682 or 682-888-3684.

“We have many leads to follow, not necessarily suspects individually,” Ing said.

The reward is for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the killing.

Ing said residents of Saginaw need not be concerned for their safety. He said he is confident the killing is an isolated case.

Update at 3:41 p.m.: The 6-year-old girl found dead, bound and wrapped in tarp on Monday night has been identified as Alanna Gallagher, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner.

The cause and manner of her death have not yet been released.

We’re expecting more information to come from a Saginaw news conference shortly. Updates to come.

Original Post at 11:44 a.m.:

Saginaw police this morning released a recording of a 911 call reporting the discovery of a little girl’s dead body on Monday night.

The father of one of the boys is heard on the recording calmly relaying information about what they believe they have found. Police arrived at the scene after 7 p.m.

“I think it’s a little girl, it’s in a plastic bag, somebody dropped it off,” the caller said. “I think it’s a baby girl, a little girl … I can see the legs and everything … There’s a belt around it, tape.”

No arrests have been reported in the case and the girl’s name has not been released. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner is expected to complete the girl’s autopsy some time today.

Taylor Linahan, 12, left, and 16-year-old Alexiss Rosalea survey the memorial of stuffed animals left at the spot where a young girl's body was found in Saginaw on Monday.

Update at 6 a.m. Tuesday: The FBI has joined the investigation into the death of a 4- to 5-year-old girl found in the Saginaw intersection Monday evening. Officials released little information overnight, but according to reports, she was wearing nothing but a pair of underwear, and had a grocery bag over her head. Her wrists and legs were also bound.

Saginaw police investigate the scene at Cindy Lane and Round Rock Dr., where a body was found in a tarp (Via Jody Steinman)

Original item posted at 10:50 p.m. Monday: A dead body was found wrapped in tarp Monday evening in the middle of a neighborhood intersection, police said.

Several people saw the tarp-draped body shortly after 7:30 p.m. on the pavement at Roundrock Drive and Cindy Lane, said Damon Ing, a Saginaw police spokesman.

Ing said the investigation is underway, and he couldn’t confirm any details about the body such as age or gender. FBI officials and Texas Rangers are on the scene as well.

But Ing said police are looking for a “vehicle of interest,” which was described as a red pickup with a softball-sized green paint splatter on the rear passenger side.